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Economics
Ask an Expert: What’s the Tiff about Tariffs?
UW economics professor Menzie Chinn explains the tradeoffs of tariff policy.
Steven Durlauf
Bryce Richter
In 2014, an exhaustive book about income inequality — French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First …
Locked Out
In an excerpt from his best-selling book, Matthew Desmond MS’04, PhD’10 sheds new light on the harsh realities of housing and poverty.
Getting Torched
Economist Andrew Zimbalist ’69 argues that big-time sports and big-time stadiums are not necessarily a boon for cities.